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Lock of hair to Samuel May, Bristol, [England]

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Holograph, signed.Title supplied by cataloger.Accompanying calling card reads, "Mr. Estlin, 47 Park Street."May was sent a lock of Rajah Rammohun Roy's hair by John Bishop Estlin, the Bristol physician who attended to the Hindu Reformer in his last illness and who cut off the curl of hair himself.
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Correspondence
  4. Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop) 1785 1855
  5. History
  6. May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
  7. Rammohun Roy, Raja 1772? 1833
  8. Slaver
  9. United States

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